Colorado Fracking

Colorado Oil And Gas Land Lease Delayed

AP | Posted 05.03.2012

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PAONIA, Colo. (AP) — The Bureau of Land Management is putting off plans to lease 30,000 acres for oil and gas development in Colorado's North Fork V...

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Colorado's Elegant Solution for Fracking

Anne Butterfield | Posted 04.19.2012

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Eventually those local moratoriums against fracking will expire, and residents will worry anew about fracking operations inching up on schools and neighborhoods in pursuit of a product that goes "poof" the instant it's used. Nice value -- not.

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Will Fracking Destroy Colorado's Rivers?

Gary Wockner | Posted 05.19.2012

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Some people say that fracking may be a small drop in the bucket of Colorado's overall water supplies, but if these water projects go forward, fracking would certainly contribute to being the last drop in the bucket of Colorado's rivers.

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Shale Gas: From Geologic Bubble to Economic Bubble

Anne Butterfield | Posted 05.13.2012

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Fracking for natural gas is on Coloradans' minds. From landholders to policy makers, it's a pig pile of attention.

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Public Meetings Begin For Drilling On Public Lands

AP | Posted 05.12.2012

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SILT, Colo. (AP) — The federal government held the first of several public meetings on plans for oil shale development on public lands that would ke...

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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in Colorado's New Fracking Rules

Gary Wockner | Posted 03.03.2012

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Colorado made a good start with its new fracking rules, but has a long way to go to stop our health, our economy, and our state from really getting ugly.

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Full Disclosure: Fracking Fluids Subject To New Colorado Rule

AP | P. SOLOMON BANDA | Posted 02.12.2012

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DENVER — Environmentalists and regulators in Colorado will have more information than any state about what chemicals energy companies are pumpin...

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Oil Companies Will Likely Face Fines For 2008 Garden Gulch Spill

Posted 08.21.2011

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In early 2008, two separate releases of hundreds of thousands of gallons of chemically laced hydraulic fracturing fluid and other natural gas drilling...

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EPA Looks At Local Formation As Case Study For National Fracking Investigation

The Coloradoan | Bobby Magill | Posted 05.25.2011

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency might use oil and gas development tapping the Niobrara shale formation near Cheyenne, Wyo., as a case study i...

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Oil Rush In West Sparks Worries Over 'Fracking'

AP | MEAD GRUVER | Posted 05.25.2011

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A well named Jake and a controversial drilling technique are fueling a Western oil rush, raising hopes for economic revival and...

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GOP Opposes Federal Fracking Regs Regardless of Whether EPA Finds Poisoning

David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011

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In perhaps the most extreme step yet, Republicans in Colorado are demanding the Environmental Protection Agency never regulate fracking, "no matter what a two-year EPA study of the process reveals."

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